AMD FirePro D500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM FirePro D500 and 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1080 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1733MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 3GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.3GB/s vs 243.8GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (180W vs 274W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FirePro D500
2.227 TFLOPS
GeForce GTX 1080
+298%
8.873 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2014
Release Date
May 2016
FirePro
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1607 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1733 MHz
1270 MHz
Memory Clock
1251 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5X
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
243.8GB/s
Bandwidth
320.3GB/s
Render Config
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
20
1536
Shading Units
2560
96
TMUs
160
32
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
110.9 GPixel/s
69.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
277.3 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
138.6 GFLOPS
2.227 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.873 TFLOPS
556.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
277.3 GFLOPS
Board Design
274W
TDP
180W
600 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x SDI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
-
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GP104
Tahiti LE GL
GPU Variant
GP104-400-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
16 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
7.2 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
314 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
1.2
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
